Improvement in toys



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB SCHWENNESEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HANS PETERSCHWENNESEN, OE SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,649, dated July 8,1873; application tiled December 3, 1872.

To all 'whom tt may concern Be it known that I, JACOB ScEwENNEsEN, ofChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Toys; and I do declare t-hat the followingis a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to 4theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon andbeing a part of this specification, in which my invention is shown inperspective, with a portion ofthe base broken away to show the lever.

The nature of this invention relates to an improved construction of toysknown as toy gymnasts;77 and the invention consists of a rock-shaftjournaled between the upper ends of suitable standards mounted on aproper base. From this shaft is suspended a jointed toy iigure, which iscompelled to perform many extraordinary gymnastic feats by means oftheaction of a coil-spring upon the bar and a depression-lever in the base,which is connected to the bar by`a cord, all arranged and operating asmore fully hereinafter set forth.`

In the drawing, A represents suitable standards mortised in. a base, B.J ournaled between the upper ends of these standards is the rockshaft C,around one end of which is placed a coil-spring, D, one end being madefast to the standard and the other to the shaft. E is a lever placed ina slot in the under side of the base B, one end being pivoted to saidbase, while the other is bent at a right angle to pass up through thehole a in the base. Leading from this leverE to the bar C is a cord, F,the upper end of which is wound several times around the said bar in anopposite direction to the coil of the spring. G is a jointed toy gure,which is suspended from the bar C, the hands of the figure being rigidlyattached thereto, and in such a manner that when the toy is not beingused it will han g perpendicularly between the standards below the bar.

It will be seen that by depressing the end of the lever E the cord Fmust necessarily be unwound from the bar, which latter, turning in itsbearing, will increase the tension of the spring and, at the same time,raise the figure from under the bar. As the pressure is removed from thelever the spring, exerting itself upon the bar7 causes it to resume itsformer position, at the same time allowing the figure to drop betweenthe standards. By this means the figure can be compelled to assume manydifferent positions in imitation ot' a gymnast or performer upon thehorizontal bar.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A figure, G, suspended from a rock-shaft, C, and operated by means ofthe lever E, cord E, and spring D, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

JACOB SCHWENNESEN. Witnesses:

WM. H. LoTZ, GEO. W. FERRIS.

